Text and Discourse Connectedness

Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, July 16–21, 1984

Editors

Maria-Elisabeth Conte

János Sánder Petöfi

Emel Sözer

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The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and particles, theme, topic, ellipsis, etc., the second group of papers discusses the connectedness in texts/discourses of different types (narrative texts, stories, horoscopes, anecdotes, poems, comics, etc.), and, finally, the papers in the third group discuss general theoretical/methodological questions concerning connectedness.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 16] 1989. xxiv, 584 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.16

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Foreword	xi
List of contributors	xxi
Part I. Particular carriers of connectedness
Anaphoric pronouns and noun phrases as text connectors Irena Bellert	3
“Functional sentence perspective” and text connectedness Frantisek Danes	23
Deictic expressions and the connexity of text Konrad Ehlich	33
Some notes on thematics, topic, and typology Auli Hakulinen	53
Subordinate and embedded coreference Roland Harweg	65
Con and Co: Continuity and marqueurs in oral discourse Klaus Hölker	83
How can the meaning of a text be represented? Lennart Lönngren	93
Modality and text constitution Lita Lundquist	103
Ellipsis between connexity and coherence Carla Marello	119
Formal connexity and pragmatic cohesion in anaphora interpretation Csaba Pléh	137
Relevance of meaning, semantic disposition, and text coherence: Modelling reader expectations from natural language discourse B.B. Rieger	153
The role of conjunctions and particles for text connexity Elizabeth Rudolph	175
Connexity established by emphatic pronouns Gemma Rigau	191
Isotopy, coreference, and redundancy Sorin Stati	207
Part II. Text-type specific aspects of connectedness
The development of text competence M. Gopnik	225
Schema for the analysis of communicative coherence in interaction: The organization of consultations H. Kayser	245
On certain peculiarities of narrative cohesion Lidia Lonzi	259
Dynamics of cohesion in lyrical texts Michael Metzeltin	271
Paraphrase as a coherence principle in conversation Herman Parret	281
The concept of cohesion: Its empirical status in a definition and typology of texts Willie van Peer	291
Macro-structure, knowledge base, and coherence Istvan Siklaki	309
Literary coherence and related topics Luciano Vitacolonna	325
Elements of text-based and image-based connectedness in comic stories, and some analogies to cinema and written text H. J. Weber	337
Part III. General theoretical and methodological questions of research in connectedness
Understanding, text, and coherence Antal Bókay	363
Text coherence and text interpretation processing Michel Charolles	377
Discursive construction: Analysis of discursive patterns S. Fisher	387
The objects of discourse: Connexity and opposition J.-B. Grize	405
Relevant objects and situations W. Heydrich	413
Connectedness and discourse structure: Perspective semantics of predications and coherence of discourse László Imre Komlósi	427
The grades of reading Maria M. Langleben	441
Connexity, coherence, and the semantic net Elisabeth Leinfellner	463
Semiosis, coherence, and universes of meaning W. Mignolo	483
Constitution and meaning: A semiotic text-theoretical approach János Sánder Petöfi	507
The role of inferences in text organization Roger Van de Velde	543
Connectedness of texts and relevant consequences P. Weingartner	563
Index of names	577

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Subjects

Linguistics

Pragmatics

Discourse studies

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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